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“The combination of academics and athletics is unbeatable at USC,” Hutchings told 247Sports.com. “My parents felt the same way and they were involved a little bit in my decision. You get a top-notch private education at USC and the coaching staff at SC is great. Mr. (Pat) Haden is also a great guy and everything just kind of fell into place at that university. And Coach (Clay) Helton did a great job recruiting me.”

Hutchings also considered offers from a host of other schools, including Pac-12 members UCLA, Cal, Washington, Washington State, Oregon, Oregon State, Arizona and Arizona State.

He said he was glad to put the decision behind him.

“I wanted to get my commitment out of the way before The Opening and have a big camp,” Hutchings told 247Sports.com. “Now I won’t be asked as many questions about my recruitment because it’s over now. We’ll have a lot of commits at The Opening and we were talking about that at The Rising Stars Camp. It should be a lot of fun up there.”

The Opening presented by Nike Football will showcase some of the nation’s top high school football recruits this week, July 5-8, at the Nike World Headquarters in Oregon.

Hutchings is the 11th player to commit to the Trojans and the ninth who is in the Sporting News 125. Here are the others: